LibreOffice Quality Heroes

Its been a while since the LibreOffice QA team started to look for HardHacks and give them to the LibreOffice development team for their kind evaluation. While the HardHacks idea is not yet 100 days in office, it is a good idea to look how they turn out and especially give kudos to those who dared and succeeded in tackling these terrifying beasts. Here are the HardHack solvers:

It is very encouraging to see so many volunteers involved in fixing these bugs — dispelling the myth that fixes for such hard nuts to crack cannot possibly be provided by a community. Kudos to all of those who gnarled away one or more of these and a special thanks to the volunteers!

Apart from the development side, there is the bugwrangling side too: Making a good HardHack isnt easy either — it often takes some good bug triage instinct and skills to get all the information needed to have a good report for development. Luckily, there are some who are great at that kind of work too — here are the top bugwranglers in October 2012:

315 bug contributions: Roman Einsle

300 bug contributions: Rainer Bielefeld

161 bug contributions: Julien Nabet

139 bug contributions: Joel Madero

109 bug contributions: bfoman

67 bug contributions: Korrawit Pruegsanusak

54 bug contributions: Alex Thurgood

47 bug contributions: Markus Mohrhard, Michael Meeks

36 bug contributions: Hashem Masoud, Michael Stahl

34 bug contributions: Caolan McNamara, Kaplan Lior

29 bug contributions: leighman

28 bug contributions: Petr Mladek

27 bug contributions: manj_k

26 bug contributions: Florian Reisinger

23 bug contributions: Lionel Elie Mamane, Urmas D.

22 bug contributions: Horst Kaleski

20 bug contributions: Jean-Baptiste Faure

19 bug contributions: stfhell@googlemail.com

18 bug contributions: Uwe Altmann, Andras Timar

16 bug contributions: Regina Henschel

15 bug contributions: Cor Nouws

13 bug contributions: os2sa@yandex.ru

11 bug contributions: Rob Snelders

10 bug contributions: Ivan Timofeev

All in all, LibreOffice is proceeding nicely in doing away with the huge heritage of old bugs: Right now, over 58% off all bugs filed on the LibreOffice bugtracker are already resolved (*). As Florian Effenberger said at the LibreOffice conference: We have only just begin!

You are of course invited to join the developers fixing the HardHacks or the the bugwranglers helping us pinning them down for the developers. Especially, getting started in bugwrangling is easy!

(*) ignoring feature requests

UPDATE: Kohei is such a humble and honest man — he just notified me that I should read fdo#48366 and recheck whom to credit for it: Its really Markus Mohrhard, so one more fix in that provided by unaffiliated volunteer (moving Markus up to position two in that list too).